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Re: MGB Meets The Fast And The Furious

To: WSpohn4@aol.com, mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: MGB Meets The Fast And The Furious
From: Bob Shaw <shaws@mlcltd.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 10:51:19 -0500
At 10:11 AM -0400 6/26/01, WSpohn4@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 2001-06-26 6:44:51 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>owner-mgs-digest@autox.team.net writes:
>
><< Hello here is my plan. In the near future I plan to buy a MGB that will
>  become a street racer. This car if my plan works out will be able to tear
>  rubber of the line to beat any Honda in ks. >>
>
>Hey - trash as many MGBs as you want (just leave the MGAs alone!).
>
>And if you really must try to beat Hondas, I suggest that you install a Honda
>engine in your MG - they are 3 decades or more newer in design and are simply
>better engines from any way you want to look at it (reliability, power per
>cc, power per pound, flexibility). Anyone that says otherwise either hasn't
>driven a newer Honda, or is wearing rose coloured glasses with octagons on
>them;-)
>
>Bill
>
>PS - have a look at the SCCA lap times for MGBs and Hondas some time....
>
I could be wrong, but I remember Honda engines as turning backwards 
and thus unworkable for an MG. I was thinking of putting a Sterling 
engine in a B at the time...

-- 
Bob Shaw
Check out Shaw's Garage at http://www.mlcltd.com/shawsgarage/
My British Car is NOT leaky - it's merely marking its territory.

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